Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 154894
Network causing machine hung, using r8169 drive
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:23:47 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.40607) Description of problem: When I'm using Microsoft 2000 server backup utility to backup large files from windows 2000 servers (4-8 machines) to this Fedora machine through samba, the machine sometime froze (hung); if I unplug the network cable, the machine will go back to work normally. I knew there're some patches related to r8169. Do the new Fedora kernel rpms include the patch or not? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.10-1.8_FC2 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Using NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit PCI NIC. 2.Fedora will load r8169 driver. 3.Have accounts on Fedora for SAMBA access. 4.Write high volumn data stream to the Fedora through SAMBA: the clients are Microsoft backup, backing its data up to Fedora. Expected Results: When volumn of data stream is reaching the NIC capacity, the r8169 will cause the machine hung; if unplug the NIC, the machine will recover immediately itself. Additional info:
[...] > Do the new Fedora kernel rpms include the patch or not? No. Can you still reproduce the issue with the patches I sent to you (i.e. 2.6.12-rc3 + http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2005-03/msg00870.html) -- Ueimor
This kernel isn't provided by Fedora Legacy, and this issue doesn't seem to have security implications; reopen against a later Fedora Core release if the problem still persists there.